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February Town Log
February City Log
Dominant Element: Fire
Waning Element: Wind
Full Moon: February 11th - 13th
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With the arrival of February, the worst of winter is finally past. In the sky, the Spirit Vein will take on the colors of fire, blazing across the sky in hues of red and orange. As such, the temperature will begin to warm to much more bearable weather. While it's still winter, as the month moves on it'll step closer and closer to spring with rising temperature and melting snow. Most of the days are sunny and bright, bringing much needed warmth to the town.
Valentine's DayThe season of love is once again here for Kaisou. Throughout the city, stores and streets are decorated in red and pink hearts along with loads of other romantic themed things. Just about everywhere you turn, there's vendors selling chocolates, flowers, jewelry, as well as mundane items that are trying desperately to be marketed as great Valentine's day gifts. If you're hoping to take your date out to eat for the special holiday, you better make reservations well in advanced- as the nicer restaurants will quickly fill up. But don't worry if you didn't plan ahead, because Papa's Omniria is open with a full Valentine's Day special line up that includes strawberries and pomegranate being added to just about everything - even if it's really questionable if it actually works (strawberry and pomegranate sushi?). Just be careful not to be the first customer of the week, unless you prefer to work through the holiday.
Down in Undertown, the merchants there have also gotten into the holiday spirit. Lots of stores are selling enchanted items used to help keep the spirit of love going: aphrodisiacs, enchanted rose petals, and various potions and enchantments that'll help you in the bedroom. The kitsune have also opened up a shop here, peddling beauty products that they claim will definitely attract a date-- but in reality the only date you'll be making is one to the Urgent Care to clear up a heart-shaped rash, or a date to salon to get the hot-pink dye out of your hair.
Looking for a more romantic getaway? The sparrow clan that live in the El Nido realm can also be found in Undertown, promoting their beach resort. For the small price of delicious birdseed, you'll be welcomed to stay at their beach resort paradise in El Nido. During your stay, you'll be given a 5-star treatment from room service, massages, spas, and a high quality restaurant where you can have a romantic dinner as the sunsets over the ocean. It might be a perfect way to spend a romantic holiday- or simply get away from the winter cold.
As usual, whether you're shopping in Undertown or around the city- you'll find an absence of any kind of true love potions. Those are seen as deeply taboo in paranormal circles. Even than less than moral vendors don't want to risk a visit from the Black Order peddling those.
Speaking of the Black Order, just like every year, there's those people out there who use romantic holiday as an excuse to sell much more dangerous potions. Almost like clockwork, they start to hear reports of some dealing selling "love potions". Sure enough, if you look into it, you find victims who are dealing with the typical array of symptoms: obsessive love, disregards of personal well being, and blind devotion. Though there seems to be something a little bit different from this year's batch, as the victims seem ... more detached from reality than normal. They ramble incoherently more, and any victims that happen to be monsters are acting much more bestial, almost as if they've become feral.
Fortunately, there is an antidote. The Black Order headquarters will send batches of a bitter tasting antidote potion. While normally this clears up symptoms right away, this year? It'll still work, but some of the victims seem to experience symptoms similar to withdrawal over the course of the new few days. Luckily the symptoms will pass within a week, leaving the people back to normal. Still... was someone trying to make these love potions addictive?
Investigations of the source of the love potions will lead to an abandoned warehouse in the Warehouse district. It's a small operation, run by drug pushing thugs that just happen to have some supernatural powers. How they will go about dealing with these guys will be up to the Black Order Guardians. However should they investigate the warehouse, they won't find any sign that the love potion was produced there- it was shipped in from somewhere else.
[OOC: As usual, the results of the Black Order mission will be left up to the Black Order team! Characters not part of the black order can also take part in this plot, though the investigation and the fate of the thugs will be left up to TBO players]
Black Order Mission Results
(As discussed between mods and TBO players)
When the team reaches the warehouse, they are able to apprehend the potion sellers. They will interrogate with legal methods, using a good-cop, bad-cop method. Xie Lian will be a good cop but fail to persuade them. Wriothesley and Ayato will take on the role of bad cop and succeed in scaring the crap out of some of the potion sellers.
From this, they will learn that they heard the potion was devised by a person who goes by the name "H". Unfortunately, they won't get much more information than that, as one of the potion sellers will panic will decide it's better to resist than give up information to the Black Order. He will take a clear potion (the love potions are pink) from his coat pocket and chug it. This causes him to go berserk and fully lose himself to his monster side (which unfortunately, is a flame bear that is now much larger than normal). He will attack the Order, and a few other of the potion sellers will see this chaos as a chance to try to escape -- or to try to fight off the guardians.
When the dust settles, several of the potion sellers are now dead. The rest of them are really freaked out and opt to go quietly into custody. The team will decide to take a few samples of the Love potion to send to the order to analyze, before burning the place down.
Red Strings of LoveAt the start of February, those who are connected to the Greek Pantheon (either by being a member or possessed by one), will be treated to a video message from the mysterious number 696-6969. Should you open it, you'll be treated to a full body video of Cupid in all his naked glory. He is completely unfazed by this as he delivers a quick message:
Hey Fam! Heard a bunch of you had moved to Kaisou, so thought I'd say hi. I'd love to drop in and visit for awhile, but as you know I'm totally swamped this time of year. You know, with the whole holiday about me and everything!
So thanks to Aunt Persie and the others in your town, my staff are back to work and more motivated than ever! Thanks so much with that help. Anyway, they wanted to test a new product and felt that Kaisou would be the PERFECT place to do it. So don't be surprised if you see some strings pop up around town- they're totally harmless, swear! You just gotta be emotionally honest if you want them to go away, so if one of you could let people know that if they start panicking- that'd be great.
I gotta run. Happy Valentine's day! Oh, and mom sends her love too- as always, ha. And Uncle D? Love the new arm candy you got, talk about a 10/10, rawr!
Oh oh, and Polly? I heard you sucked at archery again- you're never gonna hit a poor guy in his heel again at this rate. Never knew you had a thing for fishermen though, Uncle Po-Po would be delighted!
Byeeee! Love to you all!
Everyone else in the city will not receive such a message. Which means you have no warning to what's to come... but also you were spared having to stare at Cupid's dick. So, maybe you're the lucky ones after all.
Sure enough, around the city, if you're spending time with someone, you have a chance to have a string appear on your wrists that will tie the two of you together. The color of the string will depend on your relationship with the person: red (romantic), pink (friendship), white (family), orange (rivalry), or candy stripped for the very complicated relationships.
These strings can not be untied or removed by hand. The only way to get rid of them is to be emotionally honest with your feelings towards the other. If both of you manage to vocalize your true feelings for each other, the string will disappear and you'll be free. However if you try to lie or deny? The strings will both tighten and increase - until you two are virtually tied together.
Looks like it's time to open up about your feelings!
The dominant element this month is Fire! Anyone with an affinity to the water element will find themselves boosted throughout the month. This could mean a boost to their power, having more energy, feeling more inspired with creativity, having better luck on different attempts -- the boost can manifest in all sorts of different ways. By contrast, anyone with an affinity for Wind will be experiencing the opposite. Perhaps their powers will be weaker, they have less energy, they're having a creative block or general worse luck - again it can manifest in all sorts of way and players are free to play with this mechanic as they'd like.
The original OOC plotting post for this event can be found here. There will be a second log about the spirit realm event and a midmonth Zodiac posted on the 15th.
Gilgamesh | Fate/ | OTA + closed to Sampo
[ what in the Hell.
maybe he's at the Vogue, keeping his highly-judgemental wine-warmed watch, or maybe he's accepting some sort of delivery of goods and services--but Gilgamesh is staring at the string that's sprouted between the pair of you with the the same sort flat displeasure that a cat would stare at a particularly yappy puppy. ]
What is this?
two. and love just took me by surprise, looking through your eyes - closed to Sampo
[ meanwhile.
Gilgamesh is... comfortable, at least. They've gotten a call about another parcel of ore that needs to be assessed and sent onwards to Blade if it's something of interest, so his mood is better than it has been. He's in such a fine mood, in fact, that he's decided to stop over for coffee--pulling his car into a parking space and sauntering ahead of Sam into one of the little corporate sugar-factories that Sam prefers, pausing to hold the door for his partner with a wry look over his shoulder. ]
I'm guessing you're not to be moved on your choice, even if the sugar does nothing for you?
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It still gives me a nice boost of energy that I definitely feel. And besides, if I stop eating or drinking things I like while my body's hit the pause button for now, then I'll become a boring guy. What if, when I get my senses back, because I spent all this time just eating boring things to fill my stomach, my body becomes--gasp--unadjusted to them?
And that I'd have to spend the rest of my days--sob--drinking plain hot cocoa or even--can you imagine-- Plain Black Coffee.
Oh, the absolute horror.
[ even though he's definitely feeling weird these days--stronger than he used to be, with strange powers he can't figure out fully yet--he's still continuing to be his usual self. that's a relief in itself at least, right? ]
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[ He smirks, playfully, feeling some measure of ease that Sampo has it in him to joke without quite as many shadows in his eyes. ]
We could develop your palate so that you'd want to drink--how did you put it?--expensive monkey coffee instead of this... peculiar brand of liquid appeal to the common masses.
[ He's strolling towards the counter all the same, checking his phone and tapping on it to confirm a few details as he begins his wait in line. ]
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[ he's being dramatic again but that's just The Sampo Way, he reaches out to tug at Gils sleeve like the annoyance he is.]
And it's not monkey coffee. It's cat poo coffee. They get the cats to eat the beans then harvest them! It's gross, it's totally gross.
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[ He says, as if he hasn't been spending the better part of a year trying to convince Sampo to indulge in luxuries and enjoy himself. He smirks as he's tugged at, glancing over his shoulder. ]
Well, it's expensive, so it must be good, right?
1/2
Which I won't do. Because even if I can't taste it, I could probably smell it and that's a hard pass.
[ and he makes such an UUUGH noise as he continues to grab Gil by the arm to shake him. ]
We just had this conversation last month! About how "expensive" doesn't equate to "good!"
It took me ages to convince you not to buy one of those Nightmare Cyber Trucks and instead... [ ...there's a flash of red, and he's only just now noticing. ] ... get a new. Bugatti... [ where did this string come from? ]
2/2
I know you said you didn't want me out of your sight til this thing blew over but a leash is a bit much isn't it?
1/2
[ His voice is teasing in its lilt, allowing Sampo his huffy little shakes and his pouting as the man scolds him roundly, stepping forward as the line shuffles up. ]
Yes, yes, you had good advice on the car, and your car is made to order so it should be arriving soon--
[ He glances up from his phone as Sampo trails off, blinking down as well. ]
2/2
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[ cautious or scared of weird foods, same thing right? ]
The car is exciting but--are you sure?? 'cause I didn't tie the string around you. [ look it's their turn in line now, too. the BaristaMan is staring at the eccentric couple with an exhausted, expectant smile that doesn't quite reach his eyes. ]
--Uh, order the. Stuff, I'll try to get this. [ queue Sam trying to use a pocket knife to cut the string--or untie the knot when it turns our his knife apparently has the world's dullest blade???? ]
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[ Gilgamesh gives the Baristaman, take me by the Baristahand, a look like the Barista is imposing on him and should be the one who feels wrong in this situation--but Sampo smooths it over and simpers just so, and Gilgamesh sighs heavily and rattles off their order while Sampo fitzes and fusses over... empty air, to normal eyes. ]
Well if you didn't do it and I didn't do it, who did it? I've been in your company all the day.
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[ he gives a playful little shrug, staring down at the string that... seems to be shrinking between them, the longer he watches it. Oh dear. ]
...Staaarting to think it's the spirit realm stuff again. It's getting smaller. We should uh. Gooooo somewhere else.
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On the other hand, Ritsuka probably never would have made the impression she did on his past life if she were any good at maintaining a filter at all times.
"Looks like a string to me!"
A nice, pretty hue of pink, at that.
Re: Gilgamesh | Fate/ | OTA + closed to Sampo
Diablo is lost in his thoughts not realizing that he's about to walk into someone just standing in the middle of the sidewalk.